Faculty kudos

College of Education

Todd Kenreich, Secondary Education, will give the keynote address to the Annual Congress of the Japan Association for Global Education on Sept. 5 at Tohoku Gakuin University in Sendai, Japan. His address is titled, "Promising Practices and New Directions for Global Education in the United States."

Gloria A. Neubert, Secondary Education, conducted a workshop titled "Mentoring and Coaching the Adolescent Brain" on Aug. 13 in Washington, D.C., for the teachers, staff, and administrators of the SEED Foundation Schools. SEED schools are high-performing, college preparatory boarding schools that serve under-resourced populations.  The original SEED School  opened in Washington, D.C., in 1998 and has been praised by President Obama as a "True Success Story." A second SEED School opened in southwest Baltimore in 2008.

College of Fine Arts and Communication

Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell, Dance, represented the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre at the prestigious Chicago Dancing Festival, where she performed the solo “Cry,” which was choreographed by Ailey. (Fisher-Harrell retired from the Ailey Company as a principal dancer.) In her Aug. 24 review, Chicago Sun-Times dance critic Hedy Weiss described Fisher-Harrell as "ravishingly intense and sensual" in a "grand three-part aria ... that traces the journey from slavery to freedom."

Richard Vatz, Mass Communication and Communication Studies, published an article, “A Democrat Suffers Media Bias: Hillary’s Fight Against Pro-Obama Coverage,” in Theodore F. Sheckles, Cracked But Not Shattered: Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Unsuccessful Campaign for the Presidency, The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2009.

College of Liberal Arts

Kimberly Katz, History, has published her second book, A Young Palestinian's Diary, 1941-1945: The Life of Sami 'Amr (University of Texas Press, July). Including both an English translation of the original Arabic diary and historical and historiographical analysis, the book presents a rare historical source and makes a significant contribution to Palestinian history. The book can be found at: http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/katyou.html.